LOS ANGELES - Loyola Marymount University reported two athletic programs with perfect multi-year Academic Progress Rates (APR) in 2024-2025, and six of 14 teams have recorded scores of 990 or better.  
 
The most recent multi-year averages, which include data from the last four academic years, show every Lion program above the 930 cutline, with no team totaling less than 957 points. Men's water polo and women's cross country both recorded perfect 1,000 point multi-year APR scores. 
 

Nine programs recorded perfect APR scores for 2024-25: men's basketball, men's soccer, men's tennis, men's water polo, women's basketball, women's cross country, women's softball, women's beach volleyball, and women's water polo. 
 

Six of those nine repeated with perfect scores. Men's and women's basketball, men's and women's water polo, men's soccer and men's tennis all continued the momentum they built in 2023-24.  
 

Softball made the biggest leap from 2023-24 to 2024-25 going from 943 to a perfect 1000.  
 

Men's water polo has now recorded a perfect score in every academic year dating back to 2012-13.  
 

Women's cross country is on an impressive run as well with perfect scores dating back to the 2019-20 academic year. 
  
APR scores are determined by eligibility and retention for each student-athlete on scholarship during a particular academic year. Student-athletes are awarded one point for each semester they are enrolled and one point for each semester they are eligible for intercollegiate competition. A student-athlete can earn a maximum of four points during an academic year. Additional points are not given for student-athletes that graduate at the end of the semester; rather, the student-athlete is awarded one point for retention and one point for eligibility. 
  
The APR is then calculated by taking the number of possible points for a particular sport for the four years and dividing that number by the total number of points earned from student-athlete retention and eligibility over the same period. The percentage is then multiplied by 1,000 to obtain the actual multiyear rate used in the report. 
  
The purpose of the APR, according to the NCAA, is to provide a "real-time snapshot" of each team's academic performance. The NCAA requires teams to maintain a minimum multiyear APR of 930 to avoid contemporaneous penalties that include postseason bans and the possibility of losing grant-in-aid for the period of one year if a student-athlete leaves school while academically ineligible. Institutions will not be allowed to award the grant-in-aid from the ineligible student-athlete to a different student-athlete. The contemporaneous penalties only apply when a team below the 930 cutline does not retain an academically ineligible student-athlete. 
 
For more information on the APR, please visit the NCAA website at NCAA.org.